Tuesday, December 30, 2008
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought By T. B. Bottomore
'Tis the New Year, and I'm stuck in my room reviewing Marxist terminology in preparation for an upcoming exam. If there's any one else out there in the same predicament, here's a very handy guide for brushing up on the terms. About 80% of the text is available.
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Ryan,
Thanks for the link. Also, here's the first in a series of lectures on Marxian thought, posted on youtube. Have a look if you're interested.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=FjXAgBDSp2g
-Sarah
Ryan and Sarah,
Just in case you're interested here's two chapters from Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism
or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=oRJ9fh9BK8wC&dq=Postmodernism,+or,+the+Cultural+Logic+of+Late+Capitalism&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPP1,M1
Parts of it have been posted here as well:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
-Billy
Ryan, Sarah, Josh, Billy,
Here's a nice concise explanation of deconstruction that might help. I have a feeling this might show up on the test.
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/deconstruction.php
-Josh
Thanks, Josh, et. al.
John Lye also gives a summary of Derrida's notoriously abstruse term, différance.
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/diffr.php
Ryan, Sarah, Josh, Billy
Here's a list of lectures/interviews related to postmodernism. Since we don't have time to read everything out there, I hope this helps.
Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian-born political philosopher and cultural critic:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=E4VpxI8tkpU
and Slavoj Zizek's "Maybe We Just Need a Different Chicken," a lecture on politeness and ideology:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2530392910118230001&ei=f9xVSYnMLIaEwgPu9YXtDw&q=%22Slavoj+Zizek%22&hl=en
Richard Rorty:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=jpf-ye31sYk
Rorty on Anti-Terrorism and the National Security State:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=gm-5uikx3kk&feature=related
American Pragmatism: The Putnam-Rorty Debate and the Pragmatist Revival
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=GlrEbffVVjM&feature=related
Habermas on the Kantian project of Cosmopolitan Law:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=oTCuRlz22g4
Belgian-born structuralist philosopher Tzvetan Todorov:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=k6tb6CroaV8
Julia Kristeva: On Linguistics
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLUsoEDYPw
Lacan: On the Unconscious
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=URsYj-TVFjc
Helene Cixous on the public intellectual, phallocentricism etc:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUQWv0irVw
Judith Butler: Documentary
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Q50nQUGiI3s&feature=related
Very pretentious documentary about the very pretentious Derrida:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7347615341871798222&ei=qeJVSbX4HZLAwgPhzLH0Dg&q=%22derrida%22&hl=en
On Bakhtin’s carnival:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Noi4UNpc254
Foucault in debate with Chomsky:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1634494870703391080&ei=buVVSf29E4jKwgPn2bWsCw&q=foucault&hl=en
Interview with Stephen Greenblatt:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1eoANmAiI
Fredric Jameson receiving Holberg Prize, with introduction by Paul Anderson:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1886864727604894969&ei=mOdVSbS-NIe0wgODwbCxCA&q=%22fredric+jameson%22&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8109384431936522353&hl=en
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5311625903124176509&ei=mOdVSbS-NIe0wgODwbCxCA&q=%22fredric+jameson%22&hl=en
Bell Hooks, Cultural Criticism and Transformation:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUuHFKP-9s
Edward Said:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3442235942259420708&ei=1upVSd1MhqjCA4-piLgD&q=%22edward+said%22&hl=en
Homi Bhabha:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=yER4QwiSl14
Cultural Theory: Historical Materialism:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=FjXAgBDSp2g
-Tomoko
Ryan,
And for a more general, not exclusively Marxist dictionary, check out J.A. Cuddon's classic, A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, most of which is online here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=xs8l4rQwenIC&pg=PA988&lpg=PA988&dq=%22yale+manifesto%22&source=web&ots=B2pWbh8V0P&sig=CiAJhb6E9VpeXRxwLXc0XtpDRxs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPP1,M1
-Jarvis32
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